SharePoint Specialist

Full Time: 35 hours per week

Fixed-term: 12 months

The Opportunity:

Join the University of Edinburgh at a pivotal point in our digital transformation journey. As a SharePoint Specialist, you will help design and support modern collaboration, document management and automation solutions that enable teaching, research and professional services across one of the world's leading universities. Your expertise will directly influence how more than 50,000 staff and students share knowledge, collaborate and work more effectively every day. 

Working within our SharePoint Solutions Team, you'll enjoy a varied role combining consultancy, solution design, service improvement and user engagement. We offer flexibility, responsibility and autonomy, opportunities to develop new skills, and the chance to contribute to the digital future of one of the world's leading universities.

This post is full-time (35 hours per week); however, we are open to considering part-time or flexible working patterns, i.e. compressed hours or staggered start/finish time. This role offers a hybrid working pattern, with weekly anchor days worked on campus in Edinburgh and flexibility to work from home if wanted on other days.

What the job involves:

• Provide advice and consultancy to support our users across the University and advise users on best practice. 
• Service support and delivery: anticipate, identify and investigate potential issues that could impact the service.
• Call queue management: dealing with active requests and incidents relating to the service.
• Documentation and user engagement

We are looking for someone with:

• Substantial knowledge of SharePoint online, Power Platform and related M365 applications and a strong understanding of the platform capabilities
• Good technical knowledge of Microsoft tenancy administration
• Excellent customer service, customer facing skills and enthusiasm for making things better for our users. You’ll be working with our stakeholders and users to help us identify the changes and improvements that are needed.

People have always been at the heart of our work. Our people are at the centre of the University community and everything we do. We value colleagues with drive, determination and a passion for what they do. We are a place where everyone is welcome and offer a range of policies and benefits designed to support you in building the right meaningful flexibility that works for you.

A career with us has a range of other benefits that can be tailored to your lifestyle: 

• Professional development and subject matter expertise
• Opportunities to develop new skills and broaden your experience
• Working within one of the world’s leading universities 
• Interesting work 
• Responsibility and autonomy 
• Contributing to the work and purpose of the University

Closing date: 20 August 2026 11:59 pm

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